I was looking for a way to import my Spam Chronicles blog, which is hosted on blogger, into Wordpress. I came across a plugin that can import from the new Blogger. It worked great for me, although I admit t having a small blog. Only 8 posts and no comments. Check out the Blogger RSS [...]
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Apple reportedly to postpone Leopard to support Windows Vista
Digitimes is reporting that Apple is delaying Leopard until October. They say it’s so Apple can work on Vista Compatibility (with bootcamp).
I’m actually hoping it’s true, I’ve got too much else to work on and I know I’d drop everything to get going with Leopard.
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Mozy updated the Mac beta software to version 0.4.0.8 (18248M). The previous version was 0.4.0.7. If you don’t have automatic updates set you’ll get a notification with an option to install.
First thing I noticed is that Mozy now included the backup history detail. Previously it had only recorded that the backup happened (or failed) [...]
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As fate would have it I came across this article about backup’s lost. The Alaska Dept of Revenue spent over $200,000 and six weeks recreating data that was lost when a hard drive and backup hard drive were reformatted, and backup tapes were unreadable.
Here’s the story: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/20/america/NA-GEN-US-Lost-Data.php
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I seem to be slipping into a backup theme in pending posts, plus it’s time for me to adjust my backup strategy at home. So, I figured I’d write up my backup related history and biases. This is part 1, so that must mean there will at least be a part two. I’m hoping I [...]
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I'm currently backing up over 32GB in over 121,000 files.
The Problem With Microsoft
I came across this Microsoft Technet article today. It’s the “Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 Step-By-Step Guide”. You’d think warning bells would have gone off at Microsoft when this was created. It’s a road map to designing an activation strategy and infrastructure that Microsoft’s volume costumers can use. Activation provides no benefit to the company [...]
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